AA guns and tanks roll into Raven Rock
Increased sightings of non-UTC aircraft and vehicles closer to the colony have led to concerns about the Colony's safety, culminating today in the arrival of multiple anti-aircraft batteries and armored vehicles, fresh off the production line aboard one of the supporting fleet's factory ships.
Training Mishap and a public warning.
A malfunction with the mountings of one of the newly arrived rail-mounted artillery peices during a training exercise today led to four high-explosive anti-aircraft flak rounds being fired over the colony. Two out of four have been safely recovered and detonated by UTC security personell.
The shells were fired at a relatively low-velocity, aimed at a passing target aircraft, from a battery on a set of rails close to the bar and watertower. The gun was pointed roughly northwest when the mounting failed, causing the gun to fall towards the roadway, firing as it toppled. The recovered shells were found in the hills behind Honshu, and the unexploded ones are expected to be located in a similar area.
The flak shells in question are designed to generate a large shockwave and scatter razor-sharp shrapnel over a radius of 200 feet, anyone who locates one should evacuate the area immediately and warn other colonists, before alerting UTC personell as to its whereabouts.
A flak shell similar to the ones currently missing.(OOC)
An artillery gun fell over during a test whilst it was firing, there's now some unexploded ordinance to look out for.